--- title: Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they... description: Russian threat actors have been conducting year-long phishing campaigns that can infect users simply by viewing an email, without requiring any clicks. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/year-long-russian-attacks-infect-users-as-soon-as-they-look-at-an-email-n9y6hkcuw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email | daily.dev og:description: Russian threat actors have been conducting year-long phishing campaigns that can infect users simply by viewing an email, without requiring any clicks. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/year-long-russian-attacks-infect-users-as-soon-as-they-look-at-an-email-n9y6hkcuw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N9y6HKCUW.png og:image:alt: Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Russian threat actors have been conducting year-long phishing campaigns that can infect users simply by viewing an email, without requiring any clicks. The attacks leverage XSS and other techniques to compromise victims at the moment of email preview. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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